Mavericks (Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey album)

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Mavericks
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Studio album by
Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey
Released1991
Recorded1990, Hoboken, New Jersey
Genre Guitar pop, jangle pop
Length46:07
Label Rhino
Producer Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey
Peter Holsapple chronology
Mavericks
(1991)		 Out of My Way
(1997)

Mavericks is a collaborative album by the two original singer/songwriters of jangle pop band the dB's, Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey. It was originally released in 1991 on Rhino Records and was re-released on January 15, 2008 by Collectors' Choice Music. [1] The reissue featured six previously unreleased tracks. [1] The album is noted for having a more acoustic and slower sound than Holsapple and Stamey's work with the dB's. [2] [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly A [2]
Robert Christgau Scissors icon black.svg [5]
Reissue
Review scores
SourceRating
Blogcritics (favorable) [6]
No Depression (favorable) [7]
PopMatters 7/10 [8]

Initial

Upon its release, Mavericks received a very favorable review from Ira Robbins, who wrote in Entertainment Weekly that the album "resonates with emotional power." Robbins gave the album an A grade. [2] A more mixed review appeared in the Chicago Tribune, where Mark Caro gave the album 2.5 stars out of 4 and wrote that "A few of the songs sit there like pudding on a plate, but others... seep in over time." [4]

Retrospective

After the album was reissued in 2008, Michael Berick wrote in No Depression that Holsapple and Stamey "convey a sense of worldly experience in these songs," [7] and Aarik Danielsen wrote in PopMatters that the album belongs "along the timeline of great heartland/jangle rock recordings of all-time". [8] Holsapple told Magnet in 2009 that people often told him they thought Mavericks was "beautiful". [9]

Track listing

  1. "Angels" (Stamey, Holsapple)
  2. "I Know You Will" (Holsapple)
  3. "Here Without You" (Gene Clark)
  4. "Close Your Eyes" (Stamey)
  5. "Anymore" (Holsapple)
  6. "I Want To Break Your Heart" (Stamey)
  7. "She Was The One" (Holsapple)
  8. "Geometry" (Stamey)
  9. "The Child in You" (Holsapple)
  10. "Lovers Rock" (Stamey)
  11. "Taken" (Holsapple)
  12. "Haven't Got The Right (To Treat Me Wrong)" (Stamey)

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey's 'Mavericks' Album Reissued with Bonus Tracks on Collectors Choice Music". PRWeb. October 20, 2007. Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Robbins, Ira (May 3, 1991). "Mavericks Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 4, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Deming, Mark. "Mavericks Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Caro, Mark (April 25, 1991). "Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey Mavericks". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1991). "Consumer Guide: Mavericks" . Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Sherman, Bill (January 11, 2008). "Music Review: Mavericks". Blogcritics. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  7. 1 2 Berick, Michael (January 2008). "Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey". No Depression. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  8. 1 2 Danielsen, Aarik (February 26, 2008). "Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey: Mavericks". PopMatters. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ Cost, Jud (June 1, 2009). "Q&A with Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey". Magnet. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
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